$800
Incunabula Leaves. Seven separate paper, folio-format early printed book leaves removed from the following works: 1) Saint Augustine's Epistolae , Strasbourg, before 1471; 2) Decretalium , Venice: Jenson, 1477; 3) La Mer des Histoires , Paris: Pierre le Rouge for Vincent Commin, 1488-89; 4) Rudimentum Novitiorum , Lubeck: Lucas Brandis, 1475; 5) Glossa Ordinaria , Strasbourg: Rusch for Koberger, c. 1480; 6) Nuremberg Chronicle in Latin, 1493; and 7) Nicolaus de Lyra's Postilla super totam Bibliam , Strasbourg: Mentelin, not after 1472; four leaves with capital strokes provided in red, and the occasional simple rubricated manuscript initial; woodcuts of a comet and some kings and pontiffs on the Nuremberg Chronicle leaf; leaves are various sizes, all folio format, generally good. [and] three leaves from the Doves Press Bible, London, 1903-1905, printed on paper, in black with red initials. (10)
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-11-17
